The thing is-- there is already an appropriate class for such students (those for whom AP is a real "reach").

Those are called "honors" or "college prep" classes.


Teaching an AP class over the course of two years is pretty much always a violation of what those courses are intended to represent. The pacing IS part of the challenge of the course-- they aren't intended to be high school courses, and at least originally, were NEVER intended to be for "all" high school students. Only for maybe the top 10% in terms of achievement-- at most.



Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.